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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 04, 2022
> Electric automaker and Tesla rival XPeng, along with leading automotive component supplier Bosch, have announce they have joined the ELISA Project to promote the use of the Linux open-source software in critical automotive safety applications of electric and connected vehicles. The ELISA Project was launched in Feb 2019 to create a shared set of tools and processes to help companies build and certify Linux-based, safety-critical applications.
> These days, even really cheap microcontroller boards have options that will give you Ethernet or WiFi access. But what if you have a Raspberry Pi Pico board and you really want to MacGyver yourself a network connection? You could do worse than check out this project by [holysnippet] that gives you a bit-banged bidirectional Ethernet port using only scrap passive components and software.
> Never trust show commit changes diff on Cisco IOS XR.
> I was going to write an article for a while now, but there was too much work to do with the latest influx. Together with my co-admin @rixx we run the chaos.social instance. As of writing this, we are one of the biggest and most active instances on the fediverse and one of the oldest mastodon instances, starting mid of April 2017. For the last 5 years everything was simple, one VM with 10 cores, 500GB NVMe SSD Storage and 32GB RAM. This VM did everything from the database to the webserving. Then Musk happened.
> The first time we really had to scale our setup was in May 2022 after Musk announced to buy twitter. We rented another server with 4TB NVMe in a RAID1, 16 Cores, 32 Thread, and 128 RAM and migrated the database to this server. And then there was Friday the 27h October 2022 with the headline that Musk finally bought twitter all over the news. With this date, everything became very complicated very quickly. In only two days, the scaling in work load on the fediverse network increased, and most of the larger instances got very slow. We fixed this in only a few days, and this article is a summary about what we did until now. I will keep it up to date with future changes.
> In November I was assigned 24 hours by Freexian's Debian LTS initiative. I worked 9 of those hours and will carry over the remainder.
> I updated the linux (4.19) package to the latest stable update, but didn't upload it. I attended the monthly LTS team meeting.
> Have you ever thought to taste exclusive RHEL or Arch-based distribution tools in your Ubuntu or Debian system (or vice versa)? Distrobox is then here for you; it is an open-source wrapper for Podman or Docker (depending on your choice) to provide you with the ability to install whatever Linux system you want...
> Valve put out a small and sweet update for Steam Deck OS (SteamOS) 3.4 Preview, which adds in support for the 8BitDo Ultimate Wireless controller dongle.
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